Head of the CLass Guest Designer -Lowri McNabb

Monday, September 12, 2011

Head of the CLass Guest Designer -Lowri McNabb

Hi all,

We are so pleased to share with you our Guest Designer, Lowri McNabb. Lowri lives on a vineyard in beautiful Marlbrough, New Zealand with her husband and young family.

She loves to do all types of papercraft and is currently Design Team / Blog Administrator and Marketing Manager for Artfull Crafts, a scrapbooking store in Timaru, New Zealand.

Tomorrow, we will help you get to know Lowri better with some fun Q&A's. You'll smile more as you get to know her...

Until then, I'd like to show off some of Lowri's creations that she has been working on with our latest back to school collection, Head of the Class. Get ready to be inspired.

Here's Lowri:

Hi Everyone,

It’s a real honour to be here today creating with one of Little Yellow Bicycle’s latest collections –Head of the Class. The LYB products are a little hard to come by here in New Zealand so I was thrilled to open my pack and find superb quality heavy weight patterned paper and an amazing collection of matching embellishments.

This collection is packed with fun, bright prints, but also offers some more subtle patterns too. My first projects have made use of these more subtle patterns and I have decorated a pencil box and desk tidy along with a few extra stationary items, all of which would be suitable for an older student or maybe even a teacher’s gift.

Pencil Box

This box started out as a ribbon dispenser. It comes flat packed as 6 raw wood pieces. I sanded and painted the edges red and then used an old graph paper stamp I had to decorate with white ink and mirror the grid pattern on some of the papers.

I then measured, cut and glued pieces of paper to cover all the panels before assembly. I have mainly used the Ruler paper (HC-109) as it is such a fun print and reminded me of the old fashioned slide top ruler pencil boxes.

I have used the Back to School paper (HC-101) to decorate the top which again has some lovely ruler detail and also picks up some of the other primary colours used throughout the collection.

The stars on the sides are from the Fabric Favourites (HC-220) pack and just add a little texture and detail to the sides. I gently removed the dimensional adhesive from the ends, cut the strips to size and then used a mini glue dot on the back of each star to glue them down.

Pencil Holder

This again was a plain wooden piece that I painted and stamped like the Pencil Box. I have again used the Back to School paper (HC-101) as the base for the sides and on the front I have used these super-cute mini pencils from the Chipboard Shapes (HC-279) as well as the stars and numbers piece from the Fabric Favorites (HC-220)

You can see the box is stuffed with a few goodies!

Paperclips

These giant paperclips are so much fun. You can use them as bookmarks or just as clips for giant paper! I sandwiched the paperclip between one of the Dimensional Stickers (HC-195) and a piece of plain cardboard backed with paper that I cut to the same size. I used hot glue to bond them all together which makes them durable and easy to use.

Ruler & Pencils

This dollar store ruler suddenly becomes a lot more fun with a great sticker! I removed the sticker it came with and replaced it with this super-fun ruler sticker from the Favorite Pieces Cardstock Stickers (HC-135) I love looking for little fun ideas like this to give as extras with a gift – it makes it just that little bit more special. My son has to have all of his pencils marked at school so instead of trying to write his name in teeny tiny writing, I labelled them by wrapping coloured tape around the top. I have done the same here to create matching pencils for the pencil box. Such a simple idea but would add a lovely touch for a teacher.

Fold-Back Clips

Products Used
Patterned Papers:
Back To School (HC-101), Ruler (HC-109), various scraps from other papers

Embellishments:
Cardstock Stickers - Favorite Pieces (HC-135), Cardstock Stickers - Fresh Verse (HC-140), Dimensional Pop-Up Stickers (HC-195), Fabric Favorites (HC-220), Chipboard Stickers (HC-279)

I hope you have enjoyed these and I look forward to showing you some more projects next week. Please post a comment with any questions.Head of the Class

By Lori
Sep 12, 2011 9:46:03 PM | Biker Chicks, Guest Designers, Project Inspiration

25 Comments

Love all those cute and clever projects :)

Posted by: Ann Cicilie | Wednesday, September 21, 2011 at 04:52 AM

This projet it so stinking cute!! Thanks for sharing the little finishing tips.

Posted by: Mary | Friday, September 16, 2011 at 11:47 AM

These are fab. projects. I absolutly love them.

Posted by: Julie Shearer | Friday, September 16, 2011 at 11:18 AM

These are fab. projects. I absolutly love them.

Posted by: Julie Shearer | Friday, September 16, 2011 at 11:18 AM

Fabulous projects!

Posted by: Melanie C | Friday, September 16, 2011 at 01:24 AM

WOW!! amazing projects, thanks for the inspiration!!

Posted by: Carina Lindholm | Thursday, September 15, 2011 at 02:48 AM

It looks like you have thought carefully about your desing.I love all the small detail.Love teh projects plus your extra tips. Teacher Day next week so I might make soem teacher packs.

Posted by: Liz Parsons | Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 09:48 PM

Awesome Lowri love it all, love the bull dog clips, once again amazing inspiration from you

Posted by: Jackie | Wednesday, September 14, 2011 at 09:23 PM

These are wonderful! I just love the variety of the things you made. You have given me such great ideas!!

Posted by: Jeannie | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 11:55 PM

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Great projects Lowri! I especially like how you used the sticker on the ruler. What a cute way to dress it up!
I can't wait to see what other ideas you have :)

Posted by: Mary Ann Jenkins | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 11:00 AM

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Lowri!! AWESOME projects! I never would've thought to do a set like this! Congratulations on being GDT!!

Posted by: Christina | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 10:59 AM

12.

Love your projects!! <3 Lowri's style!! =)

Posted by: Cassie | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 10:31 AM

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Adorable ideas! Love those papers!

Posted by: Kathy P | Tuesday, September 13, 2011 at 10:18 AM

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So many fabulous projects from Lowri using those adorable LYB papers! She just rocks altered projects every.single.time.